Notice

Florence Nightingale is most revered as the Founder
of "Modern Nursing" .She was born in Italy on 12th May 1820,
and was named Florence after the city where she was born. Florence
belonged to a wealthy family, she was educated and fluent in many
languages, skilled in mathematics and was far ahead of the times in
understanding the importance of health data. Florence Nightingale
believed that God wanted her to serve mankind and that she did with
dedication. She set an example of compassion, commitment to patient
care and diligent thoughtful hospital administration.

The creator of modern nursing Miss Florence
Nightingale was honoured with the "Order of Merit" by King Edward
for her distinguished, and worth mentioning services. On this
occasion King Edward VII said it was a matter of pride for
Britishers that a woman without Crown was ruling the world with her
service. Because of her meritorious, distinguished and selfless
service to mankind her birthday is celebrated as world Nurses’s Day.

NURSES : A
FORCE FOR CHANGE : IMPROVING HEALTH SYSTEMS RESILIENCE

Improving the Health systems’
resilience is the International nurses day theme for the year 2016
“The Resilience of a health system is the capacity to respond, adapt
and strengthen when exposed to a shock, such as a disease outbreak,
natural disaster or conflict”. (Campbell etal)

Nursing encompasses autonomous and collaborative care of individuals
of all ages, families, groups and communities, sick or well and in
all settings. Nursing includes the promotion of health, prevention
of illness, and the care of ill in varied health environments.
Nurses and nursing are subject to growing pressures, including
regular reviews and reorganisations, coping with changes to serve
delivery and models of care, financial pressures , expanding scopes
of practice and enhanced expectations of what a nurse workforce
should achieve. We need to be flexible, adaptable and open to new
forms of learning. The three areas in this regard are:

There are many ways in which nurses
are well placed to contribute to developing health system. They can
have the most impact at the individual, health care team &
organizational levels. The ability to be prepared for different
challenges is increasingly being viewed as a key outcome for a
successful organisation. The leadership teams have a key focus on
this. The leaders have to root the bricks of adaptability, social
support, purposefulness and confidence in the budding nightingales
for strengthening nursing services in particular and making health
system resilient at large.